Vancouver home sales The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver is set to release December home sales data on Tuesday. The Board previously reported that just over 3,000 homes changed hands across the region in November, down about 17 per cent from October but up nearly 23 per cent over last November s sales. Toronto home sales The Toronto Regional Real Estate Board is set to release its data on December home resales on Wednesday. The Board recently reported that November home sales in the Greater Toronto Area were up 24.3 per cent compared with last year, as demand for single-family homes continued to surge ahead of condos.
These are of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media.
Believe it or not, there was more going on in the healthcare universe in 2020 than the response to the coronavirus pandemic and we ve compiled a list of stories to prove it.
Understandably, the coronavirus pandemic dominated the headlines this year, not just with HealthLeaders, but with pretty much every media outlet on the planet.
Still, our savvy pillar editors reported on scores of healthcare stories that were not centered around that dreaded virus.
So, we thought we d share a collection of some of non-COVID-19 content in 2020, if nothing else than to remind us all that we will get through this scourge and life will continue.
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Updated December 30, 2020 5:53 p.m. EST
By Samantha Putterman and Daniel Funke, PolitiFact reporters
Social media is home to several conspiracy theories about the explosion in Nashville on Christmas Day.
The following three posts were flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about PolitiFact s partnership with Facebook here.)
Let s start here: The man behind the Dec. 25 bombing in downtown Nashville, Tenn., died of COVID-19, according to a popular and wrong Facebook post.
Fake CNN headline
The post displays a headline from a fabricated story by the Genesius Times, a satirical news website, that reads: BREAKING: Nashville Bomber died from COVID-19 shortly after blowing himself up.